Brodie Explains Decision to End Servicemaster Contract
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THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 117 Brodie explains decision to end ServiceMaster contract By CHRIS GRAHAM President Keith Brodie said yesterday that his decision to cancel the Universi ty's contract with the ServiceMaster cor poration was only partially based on com plaints about the company's behavior at the University. A significant part of his decision was based on complaints by housekeeping em ployees and labor union officials about the responsiveness of their University super visors, Brodie said. Brodie also said the solution of the Ser viceMaster problem only addresses "one piece of an overall problem" in employee / University relations. Brodie made the remarks in a meeting yesterday with Chronicle staff members. * The University hired ServiceMaster in STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE December to manage University house President Keith Brodie keeping employees. At that time, those employees reported to the division of representative, Ed Jones, had harassed facilities planning and management. employees, increased their workload and Brodie announced Friday that he had threatened the security of their jobs. cancelled the contract with ServiceMaster In meetings with housekeeping employ and that campus housekeeping services ees and officials of their labor union, Local would be placed under the supervision of 77 of the American Federation of State, JIM FLOWERS/THE CHRONICLE the department of auxiliary services. County and Municipal Employees Cumulo-WHAT? The decision came after employees and (AFSCME), Brodie said, he discovered students complained that ServiceMaster's See BRODIE on page 3 • These clouds mark a successful space shuttle launching, not a rainy day. Movie hanging sparks dispute Afghanistan expert, visiting By SHANNON SMITH Nancy Feree-Clark, assistant minister public policy professor dies "The Handmaid's Tale," the futuristic to the University, said Willimon had movie being filmed on campus this month, received calls and letters from people in has irritated some members of the Uni the community who were disturbed by the versity community while giving others, scene. "The general impression was that From staff reports Agency, the U.S. Information Agency, including both faculty and students, an [the scene] was a desecration of the Chap Louis Dupree, a visiting professor of the United Nations Commission on opportunity to learn about and particpate el," she said. public policy studies characterized by Refugees, various Congressional com in the movie's production. Because the quadrangle in front of the The Wall Street Journal as "the mittees and several private organiza Several members of the University Chapel is University property, not Chapel world's leading expert on Afghanistan" tions concerned with Afghanistan. community, including the minister to the property, the Chapel staff had no input in died Tuesday in Duke Hospital of lung A native of North Carolina, Dupree University, William Willimon, were upset the decision to film the gallow scene cancer. He was 64. was born in Greenville in 1925. He about the movie's Salvaging scene, which there, Feree-Clark said. Dupree had been a senior research earned his bachelor's degree from Har was filmed in front of the Chapel over "I feel very bad that offense has been associate in Islamic and Arabian De vard University in 1949, followed by a spring break. taken," said Jake Phelps, director of the velopment Studies at the University master's in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1955. In the scene, a woman was hanged from Bryan Center, "but I feel good that we're since 1985, as well as a visiting profes He has taught at Pennsylvania State a rope that falls between two rows of involved [with the movie]. I think seeing sor of public policy. He also lectured in University, Princeton University, the kneeling handmaids. the film will ameliorate the offense." anthropology and political science at U.S. Military Academy at West Point "Duke Chapel is a sacred place to many In spite of the complaints, a number of the University of North Carolina at and Kabul University in Afghanistan. of us, and the scene going on seems to be students and faculty members have bene Chapel Hill. He is survived by his wife, Nancy kind of a violation of that sacredness," fited from the production. In 1988, Dupree spent six months in Hatch Dupree of Durham; daughters Willimon told the News and Observer of Dance Artists-in-Residence Jane Des- Pakistan on a Fulbright Fellowship Julie Gill of St. Thomas, Canada, and Raleigh last week. See HANDMAIDS on page 5 ^ and served as adviser on Afghanistan Sally Dupree of Connecticut; a son, relations to the U.S. ambassador to Pa Fred Dupree of California; and four kistan. He also served as adviser on Af grandchildren. ghanistan relations to the govern Arrangements for a memorial ser ments of England, France, Germany, vice in Duke Chapel are pending. Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark Donations may be sent to the In and Australia. ternational Rescue Committee (mark Dupree acted as consultant to the for Afghanistan Programs), attention National Security Council, the State Roy Williams, 386 Park Avenue South, Department, the Central Intelligence New York, N.Y. 10016. Inside Weather Peace On earth: A former ambas They lied: We thought it would get sador calls for improved international better after break, but it's the same as relations, to protect the world from it was when we left. Today should be self-destruction through pollution and rainy and sleety and snowy, even over-industrialization. See page 3 for though it is spring, with highs only in MATT SCLAFANI /THE CHRONICLE the reasons why people everywhere the 40s. Take heart, it's got to get bet A public hanging in front of Duke Chapel distressed some spectators last week. should give a hoot. ter because it can't get much worse. PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1989 World & National Newsfile High court shields FBI records from disclosure Associated Press By LINDA GREENHOUSE The 9-0 decision, overturning a ruling N.Y. Times News Service substantial," Stevens said, adding: PuSherS indicted: Leaders of by the federal appeals court here, was one Colombia's Medellin Cartel were in "The substantial character of that in WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme of the Supreme Court's most important dicted Wednesday in Jacksonville, Fla. terest is affected by the fact that in Court ruled Wednesday that the records recent interpretations of the 23-year-old on charges of cocaine trafficking and today's society the computer can accumu of individual criminal histories main information act. masterminding the slayings of the late and store information that would tained by the FBI are never subject to dis In its immediate application, the Colombian justice minister and a U.S. otherwise have surely been forgotten long closure under the Freedom of Information decision shields from public disclosure the drug informant. before a person attains the age of 80, Act. computerized records, or "rap sheets," when the FBI's rap sheets are discarded." " The court said the release of these re that the bureau maintains on 24 million The conflict between public disclosure Drug USe rises: President Bush cords would be an unwarranted invasion people. and personal privacy posed by the case flew to Pennsylvania from Washing of personal privacy. created some unusual coalitions. ton, the nation's murder capital, to tell While the bureau has not generally More broadly, the opinion, written by high school students that rising drug made such records available in the past, a Justice John Paul Stevens, was a strong use in this pristine, pastoral area of The American Civil Liberties Union television reporter for CBS News and a indication of the court's sympathy with joined the Justice Department in arguing Amish farms shows "how vulnerable journalists' organization sought the crimi warnings that the widespread use of com every American city and town is." against disclosure, as did Rep. Don Ed nal records of a Pennsylvania business puters to store personal information is be wards, D-Calif, who heads the House man linked by the state's crime commis coming a threat to personal privacy. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Congress concerned: Members sion to organized crime. "The privacy interest in a rap sheet is Rights. of Congress expressed strong concern Wednesday in the wake of Bush's statement that he intends to go ahead with the FSX fighter plane deal with Republicans elect Gingrich to minority whip Japan. By STEVEN KOMAROW over Rep. Edward Madigan of Illinois, 87- Associated Press stances, more so for someone who's stood Repair kits wasted: The Air 85 in a secret ballot of House Republicans, apart from the legislative process so Force can't repair a fire-damaged C-5A WASHINGTON — House Republicans who hold 174 of the 435 House seats. often," he said. "Newt has consistently at aircraft with repair kits it purchased elected right-wing activist Newt Gingrich tacked Democrats. Now, he's going to be from Lockheed in a $68 million deal of Georgia to their No. 2 leadership post The vote for Gingrich was widely taken asking for our votes." marked by conflict of interest allega Wednesday and charted a course for bat as a rebuke of the low-key style of the cur Republicans have not held a majority in tions and proposed charges of $229.94 tle with the ruling Democrats. rent Republican leadership, and as the House since President Eisenhower's for nickel-sized washers, witnesses Gingrich, the chief accuser of House reflecting a desire in the House GOP to first term, and Gingrich was able to capit told a House subcommittee Wednes Speaker Jim Wright and the publicity- concentrate more effort on attacking the alize on feelings of frustration in the Re day.